majors

[Socks]

The college focus and the role of the university is completely bass ackward. Classes are hurdles. Professors are gatekeepers. The institution is just a letter of recommendation on your resume.

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It's why I lost all passion and care for College. I could see that it meant nothing and was but a tool, I could not longer will myself to give effort to something I could not believe in or see any merit to.
It was just a routine--show to class--put up with it--repeat--degree. What? No thanks.

I heard a radio ad the other day about an online university and I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. It reported that if you wanted to be a business mogul, you needed an MBA, to get an MBA you needed a university, and this university, if you just attended there, would manufacturer you an MBA degree and that this will magically make you into a business icon.

I turned off the radio and sparked my blunt.

[ncba93ivyase]

But how many people are actually regarding their classes as the reason they want to go? How many people are excited about the content, honestly interested with learning the stuff instead of regurgitating it back into a scantron form so they can scrape out an A and a few ticks onto their cumulative GPA?

me

My school's CS department is pretty decent and I've actually learned a lot since coming to college. More than I even expected, really. I've been pushed so far beyond my comfort zone both socially and academically that I can say with certainty that I'm getting my money's worth. Hell, there are so many good classes and people to meet that I feel like four years isn't enough.

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I'm planning on majoring in physics.

[Socks]

I'm planning on majoring in physics.

So you can buy a new car, if I remember correctly, a Subaru.

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I'm trying to figure out if there's a hidden meaning in that.

[Socks]

I'm trying to figure out if there's a hidden meaning in that.

There's always several hidden meanings with me, and various obvious ones. It's up to you to assemble them accordingly, but I do mean them a certain way.

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Why would I buy a Subaru?

There's so much I don't know about myself D:

[Socks]

Why would I buy a Subaru?

There's so much I don't know about myself D:

That wasn't a hypothesis. You were boasting of wanting to make money because you were going to go to school for IT when you knew jack shit about IT because you wanted to buy a new car and you actually posted a picture of a blue Subaru.

Apparently you have awoken and repressed this dream, which shows hope, but you're still lost so I don't know.

[?????]

That wasn't a hypothesis. You were boasting of wanting to make money because you were going to go to school for IT when you knew jack shit about IT because you wanted to buy a new car and you actually posted a picture of a blue Subaru.

Apparently you have awoken and repressed this dream, which shows hope, but you're still lost so I don't know.

Hng, I thought the Subaru was something more meaningful.

[Socks]

No it's a car made in Australia, a former prison colony and now a country you can't take seriously.

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Those silly aussies 

[the shortest route to the sea]

I have three majors: Mathematics, Theater Production and Design, and Composition.

The Mathematics I love, and it gives me a background through which I can solve interesting problems (particularly in compsci, which I plan to do self-study in after graduating), and perhaps some employment. Composition is my love, and I hope it'll inform me as a student and connect me to other artists in the conservatory. Theater Production and Design is a passion, and also gives me two specific skills that I can take out of the box right out of college: carpentry and stage management.

If I can survive college, I'll come out with three skills of various levels of marketability and use, a shitton of networking done within and beyond the departments, and advisors helping me to direct my future work and engagement. It's the networking part that keeps me in the majors, as opposed to just doing autodidactic work in all three. Nowhere but a college environment could I be doing 5-7 shows a semester with so much chance for learning; nowhere else could I have not only academic resources but knowledgable staff.